Aichi Kokuki
Aichi Kokuki KK (愛知航空機株式会社 Aichi Kōkūki Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi Aircraft Co., Ltd.) was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer which produced several designs for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Aichi Watch and Electric Manufacturing
The company was established in 1898 in Nagoya as Aichi Tokei Denki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi Watch and Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.). Aircraft production started in 1920,[1] and the company relied initially on technical assistance from Heinkel,[1] which influenced some of their designs. Later, with the prodding and support of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the company started making seaplanes using technology imported from Short Brothers in the UK.[2]
During the inter-war period, Aichi was the beneficiary of technology transferred from Heinkel, Germany. At the time, a team from the League of Nations occasionally visited German aircraft manufacturers to monitor the ban on military aircraft research and production. A Japanese military attache who was a member of the monitoring team, let Heinkel know, confidentially and in advance, of the planned visits. Heinkel thus succeeded in continuing its design on the aircraft ordered by Aichi Aircraft without being spotted.[3]
In 1943 the aircraft division was spun off as Aichi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi Aircraft Co., Ltd.).[4]
Aichi Machine Industry
After the war, the company was dissolved. Its current descendant, Aichi Kikai Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha (Aichi Machine Industry Co., Ltd.), manufactures automotive parts and light trucks for Nissan.[5]
Aircraft
- Aichi AB-2
- Aichi AB-3
- Aichi AB-4
- Aichi AB-6
- Aichi B7A
- Aichi D1A
- Aichi D3A — Allied reporting name of Val
- Aichi E3A
- Aichi E8A
- Aichi E10A
- Aichi E11A
- Aichi E13A
- Aichi E16A
- Aichi F1A
- Aichi H9A
- Aichi M6A
- Aichi S1A
Automotive
- Nissan engines and transmissions
- Nissan Cherry
- Nissan Sunny
- Nissan Vanette
- Nissan Serena (Largo)
- Cony Guppy
References
- Notes
- 1 2 Mikesh and Abe 1990, p. 61.
- ↑ Odagiri 1996, p. 216.
- ↑ Odagiri 1996, p. 217.
- ↑ Mikesh and Abe 1990, p. 79.
- ↑ "Aichi Kikai manufacturing history". Aichi Machine Industry Website. http://www.aichikikai.co.jp/english/. Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010. External link in
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- Bibliography
- Mikesh, Robert C. and Shorzoe Abe. Japanese Aircraft, 1910-1941. London: Putnam Aeronautical, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-840-2.
- Odagiri, Hiroyuki. Technology and Industrial Development in Japan. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-828802-6.
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